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Emperor John has meanwhile turned to the …
Years: 975 - 975
Emperor John has meanwhile turned to the East.
The Fatimid caliphate, ruling Egypt, Palestine, and the nearer parts of Arabia from Cairo, has managed to establish a precarious control over Palestine, where they face opposition from the Qarmatians, whose invasions they have repelled in 971 and 974, and the Empire, as well as periodic Bedouin opposition.
They have sued for peace with Constantinople, but John reduces Fatimid strength around Antioch in 974-975, taking this city, as well as …
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Years: 975 - 975
Locations
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Berber people (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh)
- Bedouin
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Islam
- Egypt in the Middle Ages
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Macedonian dynasty
- Qarmatians
- Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad)
- Buyid dynasty
- Fatimid Caliphate
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions